[NCLUG] a rather different view of the rh thing (a bit about sooze also)

[jbass at dmsd.com]

Michael Milligan <milli at acmeps.com> writes:
> Case in point, Redhat's inclusion of gcc 3.x as the default compiler 
> well before it was ready for primetime.  That completely validated the 
> switch to Debian for me.

When is a release ready for prime time .... generally when
development team is with beta test and thinks the benifits
out wieght the problems in the prior release.

The GCC team, and a miriad of beta testers declared GCC3.0 was
prime time ... just like the kernel roll to 2.4 which caused
problems for people for a year or more, and will again 2.6 rolls
later this year.

So when is something ready for prime time? It's not clear to me
that RedHat's GCC 3.0 call was a bad one, nor their early adoption
of 2.4.x kernels.

John